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THURSDAY mm 1 milted i- Tllllilllir MrliMWIi1 ni-ilif i i A TODAY'S TONIGHT'S LOW Writers throw curve: Larkin MVP Rep's Jones joins Scrooges past Tackles role Finney, others did 52 37' Complete weather forecast on 12B Reds' shortstop first since '62 NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER TENNESSEAN J1JH SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID IN NASHVILLE, TN Copyright, 1995 VOLUME 91, NO. 320 5 SECTIONS If we 1 I i dS build it, pi Bud will fin, ROUSE FOSTER come COLLINS Sources say Adams, mayor sign deal By JEFF LEGWOLD and GAIL KERR A teacher saw Jamie Rouse's dark side in his writings. A classmate witnessed it in his tantrums. But no one knew the extent of his fury until he unleashed it before class yesterday. Staff Writers After a day filled with private jets and a race against the clock, Two lolisfly ens an agreement was signed and sealed yesterday for K.S.

(Bud) Ad Tl id 'il ams to deliver his Houston Oilers to Nashville. 111 SfcUUl ffJashville "We have cleared up everything. We have a deal," Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen said yesterday after student neia atter morning rampage 1. A gunman, 2. The gunman opens fire 3.

Gunman rounds wielding a on teachers Carolyn Foster comer firing on caliber semi- and Carol Yancey, killing students in hallway, automatic rifle, Foster, and critically killing student jetting to Houston and returning FrikliriP 4 i WILLIAMSON enters through wounding Yancey. Diana Collins. the high school with the signatures needed to make major league aaaHaBM hCre 3 BUILDING The agree- I Bids are in, ment, which was on 2A. wing. Columbia li 1 a II I 1 finalized in yes- terday's negotiating session, is a le JOILt ft A v- fry yymM.ip.M 4.

Students and teachers disarm gunman and jO MiIps 10j hold him tor authorities. rvrrrrrvro qiq Jim Chapman and Kent TraviaThe TENNESSEAN By BONNA M. de ia CRUZ, WARREN DUZAK and JIM EAST Staff Writers LYNNVILLE, Tenn. Jamie Rouse was fed up. So yesterday morning, authorities say, he settled into his pickup truck with a Remington rifle and 400 rounds of ammunition, bent on shooting teachers at Richland High School.

In his confession to police, 17-year-old Rouse, a senior, said he never meant to kill schoolmate Diane Collins. He aimed for Coach Ron Shir-ey who also is an assistant principal in charge of discipline and missed. He didn't miss, however, when his bullets pierced the lip and neck of typing teacher Carolyn Foster, killing her, and hit physical science teacher Carol Yancey in the head. Yancey was in critical but stable condition last night at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "In his statement, he went to school with the intention of killing teachers," Giles County Sheriff Eddie Bass said last night "He was fed up." "If that was the case, it would surprise me," said social studies teacher Doyle Trigg, who described Rouse as a quiet and average student Shirey also was surprised that he would be targeted.

"As far as I know, I have never had him say anything directly to me." But some classmates said they noticed that Rouse appeared troubled and tired of being hassled. Richland student Tina Mueller said she saw Rouse's quiet demeanor turn to rage when they argued after school Tuesday. Sunday, Mueller said, Rouse hit her boyfriend's car, which was parked at the Richland BP, -fa a popular hangout for students. A note he left included a fake phone number, said Mueller, 16, a junior at the school. Tuesday, she confronted Rouse.

"I went to him and asked him what did he do that for," Mueller said. "He started getting smart at me. He said. That guy shouldn't be parked I called him a punk and left" After walking away, friends told her that they heard Rouse mutter, "Stupid bitch. Don't mess with me or I'll kill you." After being questioned by police yesterday, Mueller said: "He could have done this killing from something else, and I just made him madder." Troubles at school Foster Harlow, Giles County Turn lo PAGE 6 Column I SAM PARRISH STAFF Investigators consult with each other in a lobby at the end of a hallway at Richland High School where two teachers were shot, one fatally, by a student Wednesday morning just before classes started.

A) gal document that outlines the steps including the sale of luxury suites and personal seat licenses as well as approval of financing by the state legislature and Metro Council to relocate the team to Music City. Sources close to the negotiations say that Bredesen, along with three other members of Nashville's negotiating team, flew to Houston yesterday morning and came back with a signed stadium relocation agreement from Adams to bring the team to Nashville for the 1998 season. "It is a major step forward," Bredesen said. "There are no sig- Turn to PA(2A7Columnl House votes to reopen government But veto threatened before measure passed WASHINGTON (AP) With a partial shutdown stretching through a second disruptive day, the House passed legislation early today to reopen government on condition President Clinton agrees to balance the budget in seven years. Clinton threatened to veto the measure even before the 277-151 vote, saying the GOP majority was demanding "a level of cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, in education, in the environment and a tax increase on working people, all of which I find objectionable." In an interview on CBS, Clinton vowed to hold firm in the standoff, "even if it's 90 days, 120 days or 180 days." The midnight vote in the House was short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override a veto.

Even so, 48 Democrats supported the measure, an indication that support for the GOP's overall goal crossed party lines. Despite the veto threat and likelihood of continued stalemate, the I Turn to U.K 2A, Column 6 I Rouse wont have to I Peaceful community Victims remembered. face the death penalty. rallies to overcome On7A. On6A.

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Passenger traffic is up All airlines serving Nashville International Airport, with the exceptions of American and Delta, recorded significant growth in passengers from January to October 1995. Here are the airlines and the percentage of change in passenger traffic: American Delta 4.2 Northwest 33.4 Southwest 37.8 TWA 14.2 United 26.3 USAir 36.2 who take off here or land here as a final destination is what brings a city money and shows the true expansion of a market, airline spokesmen said. "We love Tennessee," Marta Laughlin of Northwest said. Her carrier came in a strong third in passenger growth at 33.4 so far this year. "American's pulling out and the people who would go on long-haul flights are going to the big-hub carriers to catch the flights that the smaller carriers don't do." That means more business for Northwest, which racked up its increase despite adding just two flights this year.

Southwest added 17, and USAir added just three. American has been steadily cutting flights since its heyday as a hub in recent years. Nashville officially went from "hublet" to "a station with hub-like tendencies" this last summer. Southwest will officially pass American as Nashville's largest carrier later this year. Martin said Southwest's growth had a lot to do with Nashville's booming numbers this year, as did boosts by other low-cost carriers: AirTran Airways, Valujet and even new service from Continental "People who used to be driving can now afford to fly," she said.

"Our market is really being stimulated, even with American's reductions." Airlines added a total of 42 flights out of Nashville this year, with three new carriers starting By HEATHER NEWMAN Staff Writer So who needs American Airlines? Not Nashville, if passenger fic statistics are any measure. Despite a one-third drop in passengers this year by Nashville's soon-to-be-second-largest jet carrier, origin and destination traffic for the first half of this year is up almost 20 over the same period last year and up 24 compared to two years ago. Every other major jet carrier here but Delta saw double-digit increases in passenger traffic from January through October this year, with Southwest Airlines and USAir leading the way at 38 and 36, respectively. Delta's traffic here rose 4.2. "I think this trend is going to continue," Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority spokeswoman Carole Martin said.

"We have more people travelling than ever before." Overall traffic through Nashville International actually dropped about 11 January-October last year and the same period this year, thanks to fewer passengers connecting through the former American hub. But origin and destination traffic that is, people service: Continental Connection, which began March AirTran, which started May and Continental Airlines, which began Sept. 7. MUSIC Almost overnight, Tracy Chap BASKETBALL Rick InSCll started a winning tradition MDAMAK man went trom singing CONTENTS POLITICS Some quick funds were a surprise in the November 1994 race of Utah Rep. Enid Waldholtz.

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will be reimbursed because the VP can't take gifts from companies doing government business. On 48. TRANSPORTATION New directions will be in order for motorists driving in downtown Nashville next month, when the Metro Public Works Department begins altering traffic flow. Third Avenue will start carrying northbound traffic, while Second Avenue will become two-way. On 1B.

Plans for replacing the Demon- breun Street viaduct moved forward yesterday, but without state Department of Transportation support. The project isn't a priority for federal funding. On E. at Shelbyville Central High with many talented players. Now these players, Including Tiffany Woosley, are hoping the experience they've learned under Insell will turn Into the same kind of success as they begin their own college and high school coach i is vii ouccia vi nar- vard Square in Cambridge, to winning three Grammy awards in 1989.

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